Greetings,
When I try to open a MSWord document that I have received, my
non-product build of m94 presents a dialog box saying
General Error.
General input/output error.
and it does not open the document. Hacking around with gdb, I see the
program trying to open
file:///home/terry/OOo_hacking/localbuild/OpenOffice/installed/install/en-US/openoffice.org/basis3.4/program/libraries/libmswordli.so
which the program resolves as
/home/terry/OOo_hacking/localbuild/OpenOffice/installed/install/en-US/openoffice.org/basis3.4/program/libraries/libmswordli.so
which I lack. Indeed, I lack a file with that basename anywhere
within localbuild/. Is there anything obvious that I could have done
wrong in my configuration, build, or installation to cause this error?
My build script issues
export LOCALINSTALLDIR="/home/terry/OOo_hacking/localbuild"
export PKGFORMAT="installed"
before calling dmake, and I shall append a copy of my call to
configure.
Among the 244 hits (sheesh!) returned from a bug search for "general
input/output error", I see issue 110030
<http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=110030>. This
differs from my situation in that its attached document is a .docx
while my document is a .doc. However, I get very similar backtraces
from trying to open the two files. Some questions arise. (Yes, I
*do* have too much time on my hands. <grin />)
(*) If the message points to a program problem rather than my own
error, is issue 110030 the right place for me add a comment about
the missing file?
(*) The message "general input/output error" is unhelpfully, well,
general. Would it be a good idea (and feasible?) to extend the
error message in some way?
(*) Would it be a good idea to make some calling functions raise
assertions upon failure? What macros would be appropriate? The
end result after the error message often seems to be the
non-performance of what the user intended to do. This is more
serious than the situations in which I have seen many assertions
raised.
(*) What can I do to identify the problematic files--mine and the one
attached to issue 100030--more helpfully than merely .docx and
.doc?
Thanks,
Terry.
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